The PP will not stop its political machinery at Easter and this Monday it met with its steering committee to decide the next steps in the investigative commissions established in Congress and the Senate as a result of the Koldo case, in which the National Court is dealing to unmask an alleged corruption plot in the purchase and sale of masks during the pandemic. An episode that “devasts Spanish politics and directly affects the PSOE”, stated Borja Sémper.
The PP has announced that Luis Santamaría will be the spokesperson for the commission created in the Senate, where the PP has an absolute majority, and Elías Bendodo, with experience in controlling the management of the Andalusian government in the case of the ERE, for which The former socialist presidents of the Junta Manuel Chaves and Juan Antonio Griñán were prosecuted, it will be done in Congress, where the popular, in a minority, do not have many expectations considering that “those investigated are going to take charge of the investigation”, in allusion, among others, to the president of the Chamber, Francina Armengol, in the target for her time at the head of the Balearic Government, which bought a batch of medical supplies from the company linked to the plot.
In any case, the PP continues its offensive against the Government of Pedro Sánchez, which it accuses of an “intolerable silence” when, as Sémper has pointed out, “the plot affects his personal environment”, in reference to his wife, Begoña Gómez. , which the opposition tries to relate to the decision of the Council of Ministers to rescue the company Air Europa due to the meetings that, in his capacity as head of a business institute, he held with directors of the airline.
“His silence, in addition to evoking the worst possible reaction of a politician in cases of corruption, increases doubts and makes him an accomplice,” the popular spokesperson reproached Sánchez, whom he sees “trapped in lies” and in the hands of “ fugitives from justice” such as Carles Puigdemont (Junts) or Marta Rovira (ERC), which is why he has announced that his party will exert all the pressure at its disposal in the parliamentary sphere, without ruling out judicial avenues, to demand explanations from the president. of the Government “about the murky plot that stains the name of the entire PSOE.”
“The Government is crazy, it is leaking everywhere. And as a result of this, he wants to drag us into the mud,” Sémper has defended himself against the accusations of the PSOE, which blames the PP for wanting to “muddy up” Spanish politics. “Instead of responding, he turns on the fan, turning to you more, saying we do the same thing. And no, we are not all the same. “He has learned nothing from the corruption cases that have embarrassed the country,” he argued.
Be that as it may, asked about the alleged crime of tax fraud that affects the boyfriend of the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the popular spokesperson has introduced a nuance in the opposition strategy: “We do not control the couples, but the attitude of politicians, who have to give explanations about their actions, if they comply with the law,” he stated, establishing a dam between public officials, who must be required to be transparent and explain the procedures when there is some type of of suspicion, and his closest circle.
“We are opposition to Pedro Sánchez, not to his entourage, his wife’s private businesses are his wife’s, what interests us is knowing what the President of the Government does with those businesses: we politicians are the ones who have to answer for our actions “politics,” said the popular deputy, who has accused the PSOE leader of living “comfortable in confrontation” and being “uncomfortable with pluralism” and of believing that governing “is a story” and “continuous crisis management.” , therefore, he predicted, the opposition of the PP “will be implacable.”
Regarding the Amnesty law, the other front opened by the PP in its offensive against the Government, the popular spokesperson has assured that with it Spain is “witnessing the return to point zero, the beginning of the independence process” after the investiture agreement between the PSOE and Junts and ERC. “The rule of law and Catalan society deactivated the process and Sánchez activates it again. This is the sad reality we face today,” said Sémper, who has downplayed the appeal presented by the PSC before the Constitutional Court. , to which the Spanish Executive has joined, against the popular legislative initiative (ILP) in favor of independence admitted for processing in the Parliament.
And as for the head of the list in the Catalan elections on May 12, Sémper, who has avoided saying the name of Alejandro Fernández, current president of the PP of Catalonia, has announced that Genoa continues to pluck the leaves despite the negotiations with Citizens to agree on a confluence, the reason given until now for not making a decision, has been derailed: “Now we are entering a second phase to know the opinion of our colleagues from Catalonia,” explained the spokesperson, who maintained that it “reasonable” is that the militants have something to say, although he has not ruled out any option at a time when, he celebrated, the electoral expectations of the PP are “of such magnitude that it is very important for public opinion to know what their candidate”.
Finally, Borja Sémper has also announced that the meeting scheduled this week between the Minister of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes, Félix Bolaños, and the deputy secretary of institutional policy of the PP, Esteban González Pons, to try to unblock the renewal of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) with the intermediation of the Commissioner for Justice of the European Union, Didier Reynders, will not occur: “Whatever it is, our political position is the one already known. We are going to insist to have an agreement,” he assured, and has postponed that meeting in the near future.
